The Queer Tango Newsletter | Dec. 2015

Sharing insights, ideas and Queer Tango events

Dear Reader

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours. We send our thanks to all who have contributed to The Queer Tango Book and the Queer Tango Project. Thanks for making the Book possible.

2016 will be a great year for those of you who will travel to Queer Tango events, featuring one new Queer Tango festival - Quilombo Queer Tango Festival - and several new marathons and retreats. See the calendar (below) which lists 17 events in 2016 and more will be announced later.

Next year curators and tangueros Ray Batchelor and Gonzalo Collazo will launch a new project: The Queer Tango Image Archive, a digital collection of historical, pre-1995, images which relate to the themes and issues touched on by Queer Tango. The Queer Tango Image Archive aims to provide a resource website for anyone and everyone interested in Queer Tango Imagery. The Archive is a not-for-profit organisation supported by The Queer Tango Project.

We also hope to continue our conversations about Queer Tango and related topics with you on facebook at The Queer Tango Conversation next year. This group is thriving and has 391 members now. And Olaya will continue her work translating selected essays from The Queer Tango Book from English to Spanish.

Articles

We are now sharing a Spanish version of Juliet McMain's essay 'Troubling Effects of Leader/Follower Terminology' from The Queer Tango Book – Ideas, Images and Inspiration in the 21st Century edited by Birthe Havmoeller, Ray Batchelor and Olaya Aramo; published in March 2015 by The Queer Tango Project. The essay is translated by Olaya Aramo …

October 2015 saw the 2nd Queer Tango Festival in New York City after 5 years of hiatus. There had been attempts at starting a Queer Tango scene before, however it never took off perhaps due to the overwhelming number of pre-existing milongas that were already open to same sex and non-traditional gender role dancing. Now thanks to …

Text: Ray Batchelor. Images: Joana Freitas. Jack Badu, co-leader of the Football Tango Project, is Head of Coaching at Football Beyond Borders, a thriving charity supporting young disadvantaged people through football. …

Highlights From The Queer Tango Blog

Video (4:42): 'Two men dancing in their underwears', a queer dance video filmed in July 2015 in the city of La Plata, Argentina. Dancers: Adam Cohen and Braian Ayala. Musicians: Andres Gracian and Paulo Passerini.

Video (2:51): an improvisation by Scarlett and Ingrid Von Boor. They are dancing a traditional tango salon somewhere in Hamburg, Germany. Scarlett and Ingrid will host the 1. Queertangomarathon Hamburg in October 2016.

Get Free Copies of The Queer Tango Book For Your Friends

We hope that you will tell all your tango friends around the world that they are welcome to download a free copy of: The Queer Tango Book - Ideas, Images and Inspiration in the 21st Century, edited by Birthe Havmoeller, Ray Batchelor and Olaya Aramo -- at www.queertangobook.org.

Abrazos

Birthe Havmoeller, Ray Batchelor and Olaya Aramo

The Queer Tango Project / www.queertangoproject.org

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